【正文】 are inpetently managed and should result in license suspension. 56. From the first three paragraphs, we learn that [A] doctors used to increase drug dosages to control their patients39。s suicide as long as you don39。t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you39。s like surgery, he says.We don39。s decisions on physicianassisted suicide canrry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patients of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physicianassisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of double effect, a centuriesold moral principle holding that an action having two effectsa good one that is intended and a harmful one that is foreseenis permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients39。s modity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 modity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%. 51. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is [A] global inflation. [B] reduction in supply. [C] fast growth in economy. [D] Iraq39。s cunning tackling of dangerous and boring work. 47. The word gizmos (line 1, paragraph 2) most probably means [A] programs. [B] experts. [C] devices. [D] creatures. 48. According to the text, what is beyond man39。t approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don39。 to reliably interact with a dynamic world. Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2020, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain39。t yet give a robot enough 39。s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a lighthearted remark. Look for the humor. It often es from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote If at first you don39。s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn39。s a doctor. If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are mon to all of you and it39。 convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful acmodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. Who is that? the new arrival asked St. Peter. Oh, that39。 Section II Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened 21 . As was discussed before, it was not 22 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant preelectronic 23 , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the 24 of the periodical. It was during the same time that the munications revolution 25 up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading 26 through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures 27 the 20thcentury world of the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in 28. It is important to do so. It is generally recognized, 29, that the introduction of the puter in the early 20th century, 30 by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 31 its impact on the media was not immediately 32 . As time went by, puters became smaller and more powerful, and they became personal too, as well as 33 , with display being sharper and storage 34 increasing. They were thought of, like people, 35 generations, with the distance between generations much 36. It was within the puter age that the term information society began to be widely used to describe the 37 within which we now live. The munications revolution has 38 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been 39 views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. Benefits have been weighed 40 harmful generalizations have proved difficult. 21. [A] between [B] before [C] since [D] later 22. [A] after [B] by [C] during [D] until 23. [A] means [B] method [C] medium [D] measure 24. [A] process [B] pany [C] light [D] form 25. [A] gathered [B] speeded [C] worked [D] picked 26. [A] on [B] out [C] over [D] off 27. [A] of [B] for [C] beyond [D] into 28. [A] concept [B] dimension [C] effect [D] perspective 29. [A] indeed [B] hence [C] however [D] therefore 30. [A] brought [B] followed [C] stimulated [D] characterized 31. [A] unless [B] since [C] lest [D] although 32. [A] apparent [B] desirable [C] negative [D] plausible 33. [A] institutional [B] universal [C] fundamental [D] instrumental 34. [A] ability [B] capability [C] capacity